Police call boy's death suspicious

Police are investigating the death Thursday of a 5-year-old boy as a possible homicide after finding suspicious injuries on his body.

Detectives were talking to two adults that were in the house in the 3900 block of Gayle Street when paramedics were called about 1:45 p.m. because the boy wasn't breathing, police spokesman Sgt. Javier Salazar said.

“There were very suspicious injuries in various stages of healing,” Salazar said, adding the boy was “very thin.”

He died at the scene. His name hasn't been released.

Salazar didn't have information available on the adults being questioned and their relationship to the child.

No one was arrested in the case as of 5 p.m. and Salazar wasn't yet saying the case was definitely a homicide.

Police said there were two other children in the house when EMS arrived. Their ages and relationship to the dead boy wasn't immediately known.

The activity in the quiet residential area brought out curious neighbors, some of whom said they didn't know the family that lived in the house.